Clothes plunger



p 15,1942- F. B. DE FRANCE 2,296,149

CLOTHES PLUNGER Filed Oct. 6, 1941 Hawk 3. Defiance,

Patented Sept. 15, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CLOTHES PLUNGER Frank B. De France, New York, N. Y.

Application October 6, 1941, Serial No. 413,839

1 Claim.

This invention relates to clothes pounders or plungers, and has for the primary object the provision of an efficient and inexpensive device of the above stated character which will provide a maximum amount of agitation to the water and the garments therein to more efiiciently remove dirt and foreign matter from the garments and provides a device which will be buoyant in the water requiring less effort on the part of the operator to raise said device along with the garments in the water.

With these and other objects in view as will become more apparent as the description pro- The end head or cap 8 has several diameters thereto which present to the exterior thereof irregular surfaces coactive with the corrugations ceeds, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

For a complete understanding of my invention, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating a clothes plunger constructed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view illustrating the same.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 33 of Figure 1.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral 5 represents the head of the clothes plunger which is in the form of a corrugated cylinder 6 provided with end heads or walls 1 and 8. The corrugations of the cylinder are of the accordion type presenting comparatively deep grooves 9 and sharp ribs I extending circumferentially of the cylinder. The end heads or walls I and 8 are secured on the end edges of the corrugated cylinder to prevent leakage or seepage between said parts thereby closing the plunger head in order that it may have a maximum amount of buoyancy.

The end head or wall 1 is provided with a centrally arranged screw threaded sleeve II extending inwardly of the head in which the screw threaded end l2 of a pole or stick I3 may be threaded. The pole or stick adjacent its free end is provided with a cross member l4 coacting therewith in providing an eflicient. handle for the manipulation of the plunger head in water containing garments or the like.

in bringing about a thorough and complete agitation of the water when said plunger head is reciprocated or otherwise moved amongst the garments and other articles within the water. The series of corrugations in the head of the plunger besides thoroughly agitating the water will, when contacting the garments or other articles, efliciently bring about the removal of dirt and other foreign matter therefrom. As the plunger head is completely closed it becomes buoyant and will assist the raising thereof in the water along with the articles, consequently requiring less eifort on the part of the operator in the manipulation of the device.

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it will be understood that minor changes in construction, combination and arrangement of parts may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

In a clothes plunger, a rigid cylinder havin accordion type corrugations extending substantially from end to end thereof and providing a series of equally spaced annular ribs and deep annular grooves to provide a maximum amount of agitation of fluid and articles submerged therein when moved within said fluid in upward and downward directions, closure heads secured to the ends of the cylinder to render the latter buoyant in the fluid and to provide extensions to the cylinder for cooperation with the ribs and grooves in the agitation of the fluid, one of said heads having external diameters of different sizes and each diameter being smaller than the diameter of the ribs and the other head having an opening located centrally thereof and axially of the cylinder, a threaded sleeve formed on an inner face of the latter-named head about the opening and extending into one end of the cylinder, and a handle having one end threaded in the sleeve and entering the latter by way of the opening.

FRANK B. DE FRANCE. 

